That was the question asked to me yesterday by a dear friend as we drove to lunch. And it’s a good one. As I’ve written recently, I’m disheartened by the number of friends of mine who are no longer theists. The latest is Ryan Bell, who is starting a Year Without God (I blame AJ Jacobs for all the “Year Of…” madness; I think that meme has pretty much run its course). Ryan is a former pastor, and now a... Read more
There seems to be some hand wringing and teeth gnashing and garment rending in the leftie Christian blogosphere as the year winds down today. Some people are quitting things, while others are pulling in one million pageviews in a day (good for you, Adam!). In other news, dogs and cats are sleeping together. Etc. Meanwhile, I’m coming off of a month of amazing times of travel, hunting, kids, cooking…and not enough writing. Not nearly enough writing. My book deadline is... Read more
On Friday, I highlighted some of the stats for the year at Theoblogy. Now it’s time for the big reveal. I’ve got some legacy posts that still get tons of hits, so this list won’t include those. Here are the top 2013 posts for traffic: 5. Premarital Sex — Maybe It’s Not So Bad 4. Rachel Held Evans: A Woman’s Voice 3. It’s Time for a Schism Regarding Women in the Church 2. Rob Bell Calls “Bullshit” on Christian Radio... Read more
It’s been a great year here at Theoblogy, and I thank you for reading. Visits, unique visitors, and pageviews were all up over 20% from 2012, and we crossed one million pageviews for the first time. That’s very gratifying. The average visit lasted 1:50, which seems like an eternity on the internet. Forty percent of you were new visitors this year. Chrome is your favorite browser, followed by Safari and Firefox. You’re about half Windows users, and half Mac. Facebook... Read more
I didn’t do so great on my three predictions for the Year in Religion 2013: For the past several years, I’ve appeared on Doug Pagitt Radio to make my annual predictions for the upcoming year in religion. You can judge my prognostication abilities for yourself: 2012 Predictions 2011 Predictions 2010 Predictions Looking back, it seems that I’m batting about .500. Not bad (for a baseball player). But I struck out in 2013: here are my predictions for the Year in... Read more
As a Christmas tradition, I repost this, the first Christmas sermon ever recorded: John “Golden Mouth” Chrysostom preached the first known Christmas sermon in AD 386 (the same year that Augustine converted to Christianity — what a year!). In this case, the first is the best. It both beautifully written and theologically profound. How I would have loved to have heard him deliver it! I commend it for your reading in the next couple of days. BEHOLD a new and... Read more
In Part One of this Question That Haunts Christianity, I wrote about God as creator. Today I turn my attention to the Incarnation as something that displays God’s ontological uniqueness. As a reminder, the question came from reader Pat, and it concerns a contentious post by Roger Olson: Last week, I read Roger Olson’s attack on process theology, and then I saw your tweet on the controversy: @Toy_Adams @theBoSanders I’m with Olson on God’s ontological uniqueness and voluntary self-limitation, but he’s... Read more
Also, bloopers from Phyllis Tickle, Eric Elnes, José Morales, Will Willimon, Nadia Bolz-Weber, and Rachel Held Evans: Read more
This post should be properly titled, “Five Questions for Process Theologians,” because you cannot actually ask a question of a theology, only of a theologian. The problem, as Tripp and Bo explained in their recent and controversial podcast, is that a lot of people whom I consider process theologians aren’t. Or they deny that they are. Phil Clayton is influenced by process, as is Bo. Tripp hedges on whether he’s a process theologian, or whether he’s an open-and-relational-baptist-who-has-proclivities-toward-process. Maybe John... Read more
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